Submitted by madmuse on Sun, 04/04/2010 - 11:22pm.
A professor of mine once said,
"Language, in its essential properties and the manner of its use, provides the basic criterion for determining that another organism is a being with a human mind and the human capacity for free thought and self-expression, and with the essential human need for freedom from the external constraints of repressive authority." - Noam Chomsky, Language and Freedom